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Inaugural Professorial Lecture: Professor Stefano Mariani

"Navigating the ocean from your dinner plate: a story of origin, food and fate"

Join us for the inaugural lecture of Professor Stefano Mariani.

“Over millennia, humans learnt to identify aquatic animals, understanding their life histories and behaviour, to the main end of procuring food. Once a seemingly inexhaustible resource, seafood has now become a fragile and valuable asset, at the centre of management controversies, financial interests, complex logistics, geographical and cultural clashes, and, still, an essential contributor to the human diet. Here I will illustrate my serendipitous discovery of our progressive loss of understanding of the biodiversity underpinning seafood, and the daunting prospect of attempting to tackle this subject as a scientist in love with the sea, and equipped with the sophisticated, yet limited, tools offered by biological research”.

Lecture will be followed by a canapé and wine reception in the Salford Museum and Art Gallery.